Paul Tisdale

We've not had a director of football or a head of football operations in They're basically the same role.

We've not had that since Paul Tisdale was sacked in January.

So we're now nine months down the line without that key, key position in place.

Now, he leaves during a transfer window and you're thinking that's not ideal.

It seems to me it feels short-term.

I mean, Paul Tisdale didn't survive the Nancy exit.

There's still no head of recruitment, no head of football operations, no football sporting director, whatever you want to call it.

There's still an interim chairman because Peter Lovell left at that point as well.

How serious are we as a football club to recruit talent when you don't even have the head of that department in place for a year? You then look at the last time we had, um, a head of football operations.

That was Paul Tisdale, and that was January that he left the football club.

So there's nine months, and this, this goes on and on and on.

And people think you're moaning for the sake of it.

It leads me really well onto a point that I thought about the other night where I was just thinking to myself, cut out everything, right, and just think about it like this.

If in the last two years, basically, was Paul Tisdale appointed in October 2024? Is that right?

Yeah, because, I mean, we went a period since Lowell left, Matt Lowell, there was a whole period when we didn't have one.

During that

period, we signed Engels, Troste and Eder.

Go back to that moment, right? I mean, obviously, he was deemed not good enough, Paul Tisdale, because he was ultimately sacked.

There wasn't scorched earth on the way out the door or anything like that, like Kennedy and Brendan Rodgers.

But, I mean, he seemed to almost get a kind of, ah.

The accounts we've just seen was the failure of the Kyriv Champions League disaster and the failure that you're going to see after LASK will happen next year in next year's accounts.

Who's overseen it, and who's been held accountable for it? Because it wasn't Paul Tisdale, Nancy or Brendan Rodgers' fault.

It was those in the boardroom who are making these decisions, who are pulling down the shutters and putting up the barriers between the football club and the fans.

I'll flip it.

How much of that was getting rid of Nancy and his team? Probably a massive chunk of it.

You know, and that's another shockingly bad decision on the back of appointing Paul Tisdale.

Another shockingly bad decision.

You know.

Yeah.

Paul Tisdale hasn't been, uh, replaced.

Um, the recruitment team's fine, but it, but it needs fattening up-

Yeah

pitch nothing nothing comes out so I think to me that's actually the biggest issue that I take with it all is that the responses are good for some aspects but there's no statements come out or defending the club or you know defending the fans in other

aspects There's so many times where you're desperate to hear from the club on a number of serious matters early European exits Wilfred Nancy debacles Paul Tisdale nonsense you know you name it fans getting accused of this that and the next thing we don't hear anything very generally speaking during those times But at the moment, and I'm not completely downplaying it, but at the moment, a few tennis balls bounce across the 15th green, all hell breaks loose.

Just on that, and as I say, I'm not making light of it as such, James, but what do you feel about the suggestions that targeting someone in their private life, their individual life outside of Celtic, is on or not on? What do you think of that?

Broadly speaking, it's not on, right? Everyone's entitled to a private life.

And why are they in the balance? They're in the balance at the absolute whim of one individual who claims that Celtic is greater than any one person.

Why then, Dermot Desmond, after two failed transfer windows, after successive Champions League failures, after the departure of the most decorated living Celtic manager, and obviously your statement following that, after the Nancy de Bockel and Paul Tisdale, after the fact that we did not replace Nicholas Coon, we did not replace Arnie Engels before the qualifiers, none of that.

None of that merits a mention.

But Celtic is greater than any one person, unless that one person has their round of golf interrupted with bouncy tennis balls.

Uh, Walsall, Darren Keates.

Milton Keynes, Paul Tisdale.

Now, here's an interesting one.

He played for Scotland, and he played under Craig Levein.